Monthly Archives: March 2017

Exegesis and grammatical analysis. Probably two things that will put the normal person to sleep. Yet doing exegesis and analyzing grammar are what W. Bingham Hunter does in the final chapter of his book The God Who Hears. Exegesis is … Continue reading →

“Well my daddy left home when I was three and he didn’t leave much to Ma and me. Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze. Now, I don’t blame him ’cause he run and hid but the … Continue reading →

Sometimes it does a body good to just pause. Not too long ago, I was forced to sit, literally sit for almost three months. Walking was tough because I had to avoid pressure on my right foot.   I had to … Continue reading →

First Corinthians 13:11: “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.” In the context of … Continue reading →

As we have worked through the book The God Who Hears*, it has been a pretty thorough examination of all aspects of prayer and ideas related to prayer. However, the book has yet to focus directly on the personage of … Continue reading →

Doubt. As Christians, we don’t want to admit that we ever have it. We believe in the Bible and we declare it is a book of truth and honesty. Yet there are examples of people who have doubt within the … Continue reading →

Fasting… I am not well-acquainted with this topic but in W. Bingham Hunter’s chapter on “Persisting” he covers the subject of fasting. Today, we hear of people fasting for various reasons, weight loss, cleansing of toxins from the body and … Continue reading →

Persistence: “firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition.” If readers would excuse me, I would like to make a cultural judgement. Persistence is not a very popular activity today. We live in … Continue reading →

“One of the profound tragedies of modern Christianity is that so many believers know almost nothing about the saints of God in other denominations and communions or in ages other than their own.” Why should we concern ourselves with how … Continue reading →

Do we have enough faith in our faith? That sounds like a strange question but it not so strange when the result of our prayer is a no from God. When the answer is no, we start asking “what is … Continue reading →